Topic: Marcel Duchamp
The artist who famously gave the "Mona Lisa" a mustache and called an overturned urinal his "Fountain" is getting a rare treatment at the National Portrait Gallery. The new exhibit "Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture" focuses on the lasting legacy of the French-American artist. The extensive presentation ...
Mona Lisa with a mustache and goatee. A white porcelain urinal. Pieces that once shocked the art world highlight a new exhibition featuring dada and surrealist masterpieces challenging the perception of what is real. The works by artists such as Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and Man Ray will ...
Does the artist Susan Hiller believe in ghosts, or doesn't she? Is her fascination with the paranormal a study of mass psychology, an aesthetic pose, or a personal spiritual vocation? Is she a modernist or a medium? It's not just ghosts with which Hiller's art flirts. Flying saucers, telekinesis, levitation and the idea of a personal aura ...
